Sentences with phrase «dwindle the population of»

The GOP has taken their stand with a few greedy billionaires, an aging racist demographic, and a dwindling population of ignoranti.

But even without the reappearance of charismatic megafauna, such techniques will find uses from agriculture to injecting a bit more genetic diversity into dwindling populations of endangered species.

«Central African governments have demonstrated increased willingness to protect the dwindling populations of gorillas and chimpanzees,» said David Greer, WWF's Great Apes Programme Manager.

«With a dwindling population of fewer than 300 adults, actions need to be taken quickly to preserve this important member of the Channel Islands ecosystem.»

The 205 selected schools have been handpicked, following an application process that required them to demonstrate how they would like to transform their grounds to support the dwindling population of Britain's pollinators.

In Steven Kelliher's secondary world only a handful of walled towns remain as the last bastions against the night, and the dwindling population of Emberfolk struggle to defend their secluded homes from the Dark Kind.

The park was established in 1980, largely to protect the dwindling populations of the amazing Komodo dragons; it was also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in recognition of its overwhelming biodiversity both above and below the waters of the magnificent Flores Sea.

Roughly 80 of the dwindling population of these dolphins make their home off the village of Kampi, 20 kilometres north of Kratie.

From the news that a single bluefin tuna has been sold for the highest price in the past nine years at a Tokyo fish auction to the government of Sweden allowing wolf hunting after a 45 - year ban to dwindle the population of 237 down to 210 wolves, a lot

Nosema bombi, a single - celled parasite, originally from Europe, was found to have infected the dwindling populations of 4 types of bumblebees that saw their ranges shrink by between 23 % and 87 %.

Not conceding the total abolition of one of the few tools we have to protect dwindling populations of threatened animals, which are often vital to the survival of various ecosystems?

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As the world's population explodes and resources dwindle, dozens of recently launched North American startups are betting that edible insects will be part of the future of food.

Participation rates (the percentage of the population either working or looking for work) have dwindled amongst teenagers.

More than 100 regional banks face dwindling prospects of growing their loan portfolios, due to the country's rapidly aging and shrinking population.

In 2010, the census revealed that Detroit's population had dwindled to just 713,000 people, from a high of two million — fewer than in the years before Henry Ford's Model Ts began rolling out of the factories.

Given its multi-year recession, high unemployment, dwindling population, high energy costs (the list goes on), it seems clear to us that Puerto Rico is in no position to grow itself out of debt any time soon.

If Christianity doesn't keep up with other avenues of entertainment, it will suffer in population, which means dwindling revenues, which means fewer goals will be achieved, which means it is a continuing cycle, a business.

The Huffington Post: Southern Jewish Communities Recruit Newcomers, Offer Incentives As Populations Dwindle On a recent Tuesday night at Rojos, a trendy Mexican restaurant on the south side of the city, a group of women were kicking off an unusual welcome party for someone they'd never met.

I refer to the large spectrum of challenges that we now associate with ecology — world population, food supply, pollution, dwindling supplies of nonrenewable natural resources, and so on.

Even in the Holy Land, where Christians have been caught in the crossfire of the Israeli - Palestinian dispute, their numbers have dwindled from 20 percent of the population (in 1945) to a mere 2 percent today.

Today the population of a planet already struggling with dwindling resources and severely iniquitous and overstretched food systems reaches seven billion.

WRAP CEO Liz Goodwin, who is also a 12.3 Champion added: «In a world of dwindling resources and population increases, future generations are set to face challenges in supplying demand.

The Blanding's population has dwindled dramatically due to habitat destruction, an increased number of predators and an illegal pet trade.

In Riley's first book, Riley and his family travel to the exotic and lush Terai Arc region of India and Nepal, where there is much concern over the dwindling Bengal Tiger population and habitat.

Women's participation in politics in Ghana continues to dwindle though they represent 52 percent of the national population.

Dan Beekman of the Daily News reports on three rabbis who walk from Brooklyn to Parkchester every Saturday to hold services for the area's dwindling Jewish population.

«Paleontologists have come up with various kill scenarios for mass extinctions, but plant life may not be affected by dying suddenly as much as through interrupting one part of the life cycle, such as reproduction, over a long period of time, causing the population to dwindle and potentially disappear,» said co-author Cindy Looy, a UC Berkeley associate professor of integrative biology.

Or tricks borrowed from de-extinction could inject genetic diversity into dwindling populations, like those of black - footed ferrets on the Great Plains.

This allows Ecocean to track the movements of individual sharks as well as the dwindling of the general population.

Demand soars, populations dwindle of caterpillar fungus used to treat everything from cancer to erectile dysfunction

Thanks to growing population and dwindling supplies, fossil fuel production per capita may peak by mid-century — ending the two centuries of unlimited growth in energy production that is at the root of modern civilization, consultant Richard Nehring writes in the journal.

Meanwhile, populations of certain species of Antarctic penguins such as the Adélie are dwindling, and Antarctic krill — the tiny crustaceans that feed whales and many other animals — are also on the decline.

The chronology also pinpoints the timing of the Neanderthals» disappearance, and suggests they may have survived in dwindling populations in pockets of Europe before they became extinct.»

When the population had dwindled from 296 individuals to fewer than 10, parasitologist Peter Daszak of Kingston University in Kingston - upon - Thames, England, and veterinary pathologist Andrew Cunningham of the Institute in Zoology in London set out to find out why.

The European Commission hopes better protection of eels at all stages of life will help restore dwindling populations.

«Firstly, we are following a non-destructive strategy to mass propagate individuals from a variety of genotypes to allow for potential repopulation of dwindling populations in the Duthie Reserve and elsewhere,» Dr Hills explains.

Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide belched out by cars and power plants soar, while amphibian populations plummet and glaciers dwindle like an ice cube in your palm.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the whorled sunflower, Short's bladderpod and fleshy - fruit gladecress for protection under the Endangered Species Act because populations of the three are dwindling to critical levels.

As the global population grows — and freshwater supplies dwindle — ensuring that everyone has sufficient supplies of life - giving H2O has become an enormous challenge.

Far more must be done to use our existing water more efficiently, but with the world's population escalating and the water supply dwindling, the economic tide may soon turn in favor of desalination.

Alaskan Native communities that subsist on fish and shellfish in the region only saw some of the dwindled sea life populations regain their pre-spill levels by 2003.

And despite the challenge posed by the current lack of some formerly abundant species, Gorongosa and protected areas like it may be the only hope of saving what remains of Africa's rapidly dwindling vulture populations.

He has warned of potentially destabilizing and costly food shortages, populations outstripping dwindling natural resources, water tables falling precipitously and glaciers retreating, bringing drought and floods.

The idea is that the male offspring inherit the lethal genes and continue to propagate them through the population, until the number of females dwindles to zero and the species crashes.

Already - dwindling primate populations will see mass extinctions in the next 25 to 50 years if current manmade pressures are not addressed, according to experts on primate conservation writing in the 18 January issue of the journal Science Advances.

In the American West, a burgeoning population created a double - whammy of surging power demands and dwindling freshwater supplies.

The study also finds that half of unfenced populations of lions are likely to dwindle in the next few decades.

Now the lion population has dwindled to less than a tenth of that.

Dwindling populations created a «mutational meltdown» in the genomes of the last wooly mammoths, which had survived on an isolated island until a few thousand years ago.